Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-09-24
THE COURTS OPINION,
Aa Given fn she Cass OF shs Chhear,
Cond easaned AnarehassA,


Is synopsis of the opinion by Justice
Magruder in the anarchists case. After
citing the case and its origin, Judge Ma
gruder, speaking ably for himself and the
court, says:
About the first OF May, 1886. workingmen of
Chicago and other industrial centers were
greatly worked upon by outside influence
hour re oys sAeltea especially as 70 the eight
excitement ameetlhE was held May 4, 1885,
At the haymarket, which was addressed by
and while he WAS making the
closing, speech at some time between I'd
aud II O'Clock in the evening several
In ali, marched Into the cr5wd nom, their staI
| uon ON Des PLANES street, and ordered the
meeting stopped. As soon as the order was
| caused the fatalities. II Is undisputed that
the bomb was thrown and that ID caused the
DEATH OF DEGAN.
! 1t is conceded that none of the convicted
threw the bomb with his own hands. The
plaintiffs in error are charged with being ac-
cessories to the fact. Some of the counts In
the indictment charge the defendants with
being present, aiding and abetting in the
throwing of bomb, others that not being
sbetted such throwing The court then
j quotes chapter 9S division 3, Sections
Ing anu thfeel revised statutes o. the state OF
| illinois, and tue judge says: "If the defend
| ant advised and encouraged, aided or abetted
In the killing OF the policemen, they are as
KRu 1.asS US ISL u tneS haa taken these mems
| stood by and saw, or aided In throwing tine
bomb, each of these aiders and abettors are as
| guilty as him who did the fatal deed. 1t Is
| charged that the defendants were united and
had conspired to do this awful work, and
that their awful des ign WAS fulfilled" The
opinion shows that while noG, pc haps a conn
bination OF the same eulprlts, the desire OF
their several parts and purposes was to ac-
eomplish the same end. The cues
have common purpose or design to murder
these police, did they combine for that pur-
pose, and was the result of such cnmoination
death to the men who were guardians of the
law? Who was 1t threw the bombs that killed
began?
DESCRIBING THE BoMBs.
The bomb was as round and as big as tase
ball, Says a credable witness, and another
witness says: II saw the bomb, and know it
was ronnd bomb" The court follows in a
description OF the various bombs in use or
known TO anarchist science, and correctly
mentioned four different varieties, and con-
Guiding that these, or the most deadly of
them, were made by Louis Lingg, Judging
from what had been found In his possession,
and his acquaintance with William Seliger,
who was German carpenter, and made mis-
appearance in Chicago in ISIS. and who
and in March, iSsS. brought OF 0 dRnamiEss
there, The court quoted some experiments
made by these gentlemen in. their peculiar
Two men were experts in their business. The
evidence shows that these two men. April no
SIS, the Friday before the Haymarket meet
ing met and Lingg brought to Seliger's house
large wooden box, thrle feet long and from
sixteen TO Il shteen inches high, and that il
contained dynamite; that he thihggl spent
that evening In filling dynamite into gas pipe
and globulRr shells. He was also assisted fy
number OF persons, and Seliger among
them. Upwards OF fifty bombs were finished
that afternoon and il appears to have been
continued till the very evening Of the Hay
market meeting. The record goes on
who was seen working at some coil fuse
and Lingg, Seligfr, Theilan and Herman,
were frequently engaged in casting and MILL
scription OF the premises, Pieces OF shells,
made by Lingg, were subjected TO chemical
analysis, and were found to be composed of
certain portion of tin and the remainder OF
lead and anthony, iron and zinc. and out Of
the four bombs examined, the percentage
varied varied put signify, and the pieces taken from
FOUND AT LISGG's,
after his arrest run the same in composition,
The evidence goes on to further complicate
Lingg's connection with this terrible affair
SO closely that escape for him would be Inn
possible: After fastening the evidence upon
Ling{. the court asks the questslQns: "Why
did Ling make the bomb which killed Degan?s'
To answer this IL becomes necessary
to examine the character of the association
with which these defendants were connected,
and Its aims. There were no questions about
this organization, nor little about its objects
us platform was published by o certain
bureau of Information, called the Alarm and
AF6ter Zettung, and that paper, the court
quotes many familiar extracts from the lat
ter incendiary sheet. OF course, among them,
are the peculiar ideas of tine communists the
abolishment' of titles to lands and sort OF
freedom which is far beyond or ages in tbe
rear of modern civilization, aud in some OF
these articles the charge Is made that the
state, churches, schools and press are in the
pay and under the sway OF capitalists and
that the laborers must overthrow these pow
ers by physical strength. 1t is admit
ted, and even positively asserted, that
such thing as the right OF property Is
who, BY lazlness and other faults have neVer
earned property, or by their want of Thrift.
cannot keep such as they may have had.
yerts all law. His honor goes further in his
descriptive mention of gentlemen who come
sight, for he says. "These men should read
our constitution and our laws, either
they will md they are hemmed' in with
will feel it." And so his honor goes on,
There was another newspaper called the
AA ieIda,. mentioned before, and defendant
1t was under the management
Of England and other OF these defendants.
The court at some length, but with cogent ar
gument, proceeded to connect other felonies
In the case, for instance, that these defend.
ants were the chief movers and center OF any
CoMMUNIsTIc MEETINGS
In Chicago, and that they were there In per.
son, and were always pronounced leaders of
the red flag. 1.-THE evidence was" saws his
honor, That there were twenty-five 10 thirty
labor unions in Chicago at that time embrac-
ing membership of from 1900 to 1900. A
large majority Of these men were honest, In
dustrious men, working daily for their daily
thought Of anarchy.'F But the evidence also
shows that the members of each and all of the
many groups" OF anarchists. distrlb-
nted throughout the city had assim-
Hated themselves with these lawful
labor organizations. What their purpose was
in so doing was obvious from their procedure, /
Turning again to the Haymarlet meeting,
the court says the assemblage for any ordin- /
airy purpose would have been lawful, but 10 /
Inc prior arming and drilling of the
"groups" even was unlawful as q violation
OF tne militia laws OF the state Of Illinois,
which provide that II shall be unlawful for /
any company to drill or parade with arms In
the state without authority.
IL was claimed in one OF the organs OF the
dynamite throwers that bomb in the hand
OF one man would be equal to a regiment OF
men. and while such testimony was irrele-
yand ye f IT., T. contained no point 70 justify re-
pons by which depraved men, or men with
no heart, could use against their fellow crea-
lures, nothing in modern times can approach
anarchists.
The court very carefully explains the law
as to conspiracy in all its phases, and quotes
extensively from eminent authorities.
The court further says it is a mistake to
assume that defendant cannot be charged
with advising, encouraging, aiding and
abetting an unknown principal in the per-
petration of crime, and following that
point his honor gives very familiar and
trite and well known examples, and fol-
lows it with long list of reliable authori.